Will humans make it to Mars in our lifetime?

[Titan]

that\'s only because right now we\'re going through both of those things that that\'s on your mind..while theres obviously a probability that either/both of those will reoccur (the economy goes up and down and every decade has a war/"conflict"), the likelyhood that thing will always be as the are right now isn\'t likely.

id just never say with a lot of gumption that just because we\'re at a shitty economic time now that it will always be so bad that we wont put people on mars. We\'re putting crazy high-tech equipment into space even with wars and recession...the only reason we don\'t put people with that crazy high-tech equipment is because it doesn\'t matter as much if the equipment malfunctions and slams into mars\'s ground right now. landing\'s definitly going to be super complex with people involved

That\'s very true. We also have no competition to get to Mars. At least with the Moon we were competing with the Soviets. Now we can take our cushy time. But I\'m sure when we have the money, in a booming economy and no war, technology to go to Mars will advance sevenfold. Just sucks I won\'t be going to Mars

You guys know that aliens are from Mars right?

Scary stuff!

i hope not, there\'s little reason to go there.

unless you\'re an "omg, we\'re ruining earth and must abandon!!!!1" hippy.

No I don\'t think the earth is in any stage of needing to be abandoned. I just think it would be an amazing feat for the species to accomplish.

and Titan the Chinese are actually trying to get a space program up and running and wants to send a probe there in 2009. I think if they ever got close to anything major like other planet explorations that the US would definately not let Nasa sit on the side lines and more funding would be made available to make sure Nasa was the first. I think the US would be pissed if the first man on mars wasn\'t an American or maybe from a different country but not associated with an American space program.

Thats a great video of the rovers landing. So much work into something that small. I can only imagine how hard it would be for a space craft carrying people.

[clips]

Does Mars have oil? And will building a launching pad on the moon and fueling a rocket to other worlds use any of ours?
 
Because Mars can suck a nut for $4 a gallon.

Tru dat!....oil is passin\' $116 a barrel....and i don\'t care that most other countries pay more for gas than we do,...bush needs to release some of our reserves to ease the pain at the pump and talk to his buddies over there in saudi arabia...now if they did find an oil resource on mars that would be great, but again i think the cost of shipping the said oil would be too much of a burden to transport it back to earth.

i hope not, there\'s little reason to go there.

unless you\'re an "omg, we\'re ruining earth and must abandon!!!!1" hippy.

Well, there was no real reason to walk on the moon.
It\'s just a feat that us humans should accomplish.

if i was alive back then, i would have questioned its purpose too.
a huge waste of money.

kids in america can\'t get an education and we want to send humans to a lifeless rock just because we want to compare dick sizes with the rest of the countries?
do not confuse america\'s reasons with "feats of humanity".

curing cancer or making crops thrive without water to solve world hunger is an accomplishment.

[GmanJoe]

I\'d rather research the deep seas.

[clips]

I\'d rather research the deep seas.

That\'d be pretty interesting...i was watching a program i guess on the discovery channel about the ocean floor and this is supposedly the farthest anybody has ever been.... i think they actually went to the ocean floor using some type of mini sub or device, but anyway that deep down the ocean was in complete darkness, and there were all kinds of alien looking creatures down there that glowed in the dark.....if you\'ve ever seen the abyss and how the alien craft looked and how the aliens themselves looked, that\'s exactly how these creatures looked,...they were somewhat like jellyfish in the sense that you could see thru them but the way they glowed was like a neon-like flash show...really interesting stuff.


It should also be noted that there were these really intense hot area\'s down there,.. i mean i think the narrator stated something like the temperature in these immediate area\'s was like 800 - 900 degrees, but there were actually creatures living by these guisers of intense heat, there was this giant crab living in realm of these intense heat guisers seemingly unfazed by the intense heat...it was kind of amazing to see something exist like that on the ocean floor considering you would think that on the ocean floor, the temp would be incredibly frigid...

I\'d rather research the deep seas.

Rapture !!!!

weren\'t we suppose to have flying cars about 8 years ago?

weren\'t we suppose to have flying cars about 8 years ago?

Dude, thats what I\'m saying.


When we get those floating skateboards from Back to the Future II, then I\'ll say were making progress.

[Viper_Fujax]

i was just thinking about those skateboards yesterday,haha. fuck the cars..we dont need those. plus gravity would make car crashes pretty craptacular. but those skateboards...

[videoholic]

if i was alive back then, i would have questioned its purpose too.
a huge waste of money.

kids in america can\'t get an education and we want to send humans to a lifeless rock just because we want to compare dick sizes with the rest of the countries?
do not confuse america\'s reasons with "feats of humanity".

curing cancer or making crops thrive without water to solve world hunger is an accomplishment.

It\'s a proven fact that American\'s have large penises.

if i was alive back then, i would have questioned its purpose too.
a huge waste of money.

kids in america can\'t get an education and we want to send humans to a lifeless rock just because we want to compare dick sizes with the rest of the countries?
do not confuse america\'s reasons with "feats of humanity".

curing cancer or making crops thrive without water to solve world hunger is an accomplishment.

Yeah but landing on the moon, even tho everyone knows that was Americas time to shine and they did it to be in the spotlight. It became a human accomplishment not just an American one and shows what the species are capable of.  Even if going to it was only for bragging rights, it became much more than that in the end.

Also how many times have scientific discoveries been made by accident or have been found from an indirect link because some other scientific discovery? Even if developing technology to go to mars has no direct link to medicine, whos to say something invented along the way could turn around and make finding the cure for cancer much easier. Some tool or something. Humans furthering their education in any field that we have not mastered is good as a whole, not just its primary objective.

Likewise what if on the road to curing cancer they find a way or something to make humans more durable in space travel, or something that helps bones and muscle not lose their strength on account of being in 0 gravity.

I think curing cancer is without a doubt, along with curing many other diseases should be at the top of the human agenda. I also think that education is the most important thing you can give any human being, not just a child. I don\'t think education ends after university I think its a lifelong experience. One of the few things I can say that has 0% percent downside. Just simple learning.

Yes the schools are quite shit at the moment, as rich as this continent is North America still puts out some of the lowest % of scientists into academic fields when compared to other countries. This is a big problem and definately needs to be fixed. I however personally think that going to a \'lifeless rock\' is just as important as discovering the cure for cancer in the grand scheme of things.